Everyday Systems

Blithe Morning

Officially no, when they're married. :wink: Good answer. :D Since this thread is totally off topic, I'll just point out that I have on occasion found myself noticing a... er... certain type of man. I uniformly call them Art because I realize that while they are nice to glance at I do not want the h...

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We do have a daily check in thread. That's a good place to do a daily diary if you are so inclined.

http://everydaysystems.com/bb/viewforum.php?f=8

You can do this. You are stronger than you give yourself credit for.

Blithe Morning

Welcome Heddi! I look forward to your posts. Thank you for becoming another voice in support of No S.

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Ohhh... I get it! Thank you for the explanation. Actually, I'm not sure we in the US have a common term for a student who chronically blows off classes.

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Good luck :) I have trouble hiding that I'm on a diet when I'm on one. I actually don't have the skill to sensibly refuse forbidden foods (sweets in the case of NoS). Go for it, and if you could share your secret agent refusal tricks with us, this could help ! In thinking about this answer, I reali...

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To paraphrase a fortune cookie: diets are like children, there are none so wonderful as your own. One of the reasons I participate in this board is because most of the conversation is about habit and behavior and changing our thinking to what is reasonable and sustainable, resisting the social expec...

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Blithe Morning, oolala: Did not mean to be offensive, so if so, please forgive me. No offense taken on my part! I was just teasing you. Because, really, don't men look at women? I don't think when a man looks at a woman he's necessarily making her into a sex object. I think it's just some hard wire...

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You can always swap up the coffee with tea. My personal favorite is a chai flavored black tea with a splash of half and half. If you don't want the caffeine, Celestial Seasoning's Bengal Spice is a good herb alternative. I've also heard mixed things about coffee. I have been drinking coffee since I ...

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Oolala : not all girls in France are thin, and most of them are not. (I'm a Frenchman, I can tell). TUK, I appreciate the "eyes on the ground" report. I'm sure you will feel it's your duty to look at women from now on. You know, just so you can report back here about French waistlines. All in the i...

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I have times when I am completely compliant and times when I'm ... less compliant. I believe part of the reason you are struggling is that your self control is being consumed by the new stressful job. In short, we have only limited amount of self control and it does get consumed by stress - by not l...

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In my husband's family food=love. Feeding someone shows you care about them and to reject that food means you are rejecting their love. This creates a needy, controlling vibe around food which quite frankly drives me crazy. I don't think there is an easy way to do this. You have to set some boundari...

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Well, I don't see the issue with the bread. Unless you are gluten intolerant eat the bread and enjoy it. I have bread at lunch and dinner. Not a whole loaf but about 2 ounces. As for snacking on fruit, that you will just have to decide to do tstop, then do it. If you find yourself rebounding because...

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Interesting. I had no idea that the Pacific Islands were the most obese. I thought that distinction went to the US. Even though I'm smack dab in the middle of my BMI range I am below average for women in my age group (45-59) both for the US and the world. This actually makes me wonder about the BMI ...

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I usually have bowl for breakfast, a smaller plate for lunch and a 10" plate for dinner that I don't fill to the rim. So yes, plate size can vary.

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I want to believe you, I really really do. But then I look at the success stories, I know there are only a handful compared to the number of people that fail but I still think maybe, just maybe that could be me... I'm so fed up of hating myself and wanting to be thin but also thinking I am wasting ...

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There are people here who eat four meals a day for various reasons. If you read the book or just dig into the website, you will see there is wiggle room to allow this. Since I don't know your doctor or his training or your medical history,I am hesitant to suggest you defy doctor's orders - I am not ...

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This is one of those areas that can make No S seem ridiculous. No Fruit Between Meals! makes no sense to people since the conventional wisdom is that a snack should be a piece of fruit. But fruit and carrot sticks are a slippery slope since they lead to nuts which leads to cheese cubes which leads t...

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Here's the thing. The only way to fail at No S is to quit. Unlike other diets which measure success in pounds, No S measures its success in compliance. As long as you keep coming back, you are successful. I have been complying with varying degrees for years. When I am strict vanilla, my weight drift...

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From what I've read, the only time you need to do that is if you are working out strenuously for more than an hour. And even then you could get by with a drink such as chocolate milk or protein drink or sports drink.

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Practice saying "Mom, thanks for your concern but I am old enough to make my own decisions about what I eat." Repeat as necessary. If she keeps on, then give her the book and tell her that from now on you are going to refer all food related conversation to the book. Assure her you know the differenc...

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A beverage is something I use to slake my thirst. I wouldn't drink a soup if I were thirsty, especially a cup a soup which has tons of sodium.

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I have a former and active duty Marine. Active duty was home on predeployment leave at Christmas. He had a few other Marines over one evening. The next morning, I walked out of my bedroom and it was like walking into a wall of beer odor.

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Fruit? Fruit is fine as part of a meal. I often eat a piece with every meal. Any diet that forbids fruit is suspect in my opinion.

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Junk food is technically allowable so you need a different strategy from No S. How about dividing up your plate into quarters or thirds or what have you and only allowing a certain amount of space for junk food.

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I must be old school. I consider commenting on anyone's eating to be... well, a little rude. It sounds like you had a nice lunch though. It's been years since I've had a Blimpies.

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This is part of why I consider wine part of my meal.

Beer on the other hand has the effect of making me feel full.

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Like, wosnes, I added No S to an established habit of exercise rather than exercise to No S. If exercise is new to you, I would concentrate first on No S then on exercise. However, assuming you are in the Northern hemisphere, this is an easy time of year to add in some walking without thinking about...

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The Skinny Rules Bob Harper May 2012 Ballantine Boks I violated one of my long standing rules about opening other "how to eat" books. But this one caught my eye because it was co-authored by Greg Critser who wrote Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World . That book was insigh...

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Tracking the Junk Food The World Eats After Dark from NPR Blog The Salt People around the world show remarkable similarity in their daily eating habits: meals start off healthy in the morning, but get progressively worse throughout the day â€“ until by nightfall we're deep into junk food territory....

Blithe Morning

If it feels like too much, it's probably too much. I generally limit wine to weekends or for evenings that I want to make a little celebratory for some reason. I don't drink every day. If every day is special, then no day is special. It's like self esteem trophies, too many and it stops meaning anyt...

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That's really hard! So sorry. :( If you can see No S as a form of self care, go for it. But no beating yourself up if you can't comply perfectly. Without knowing your current eating habits, I would suggest you start with No Snacking. For many people that will take care of a large percentage of exces...

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More studies should collect information on when people eat, and not just what they eat, Panda said. There is so much we don't know scientifically but we do know culturally. Eat regular, reasonable meals. Don't snack, you'll ruin your appetite. Save sweets and treats for special occasions because if...

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According to obesity mathematician Carson Chow in the article A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity , the numbers show obesity is caused by the fact that as a culture we simply have too much food. He also says the numbers show it takes a long time, like three years, for weight loss to stick since it t...

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If you have to look at the label to see if something is a sweet, then it's probably not. Our tastebuds and culture generally indicate what is food for a meal and what is food for dessert or sweet treat. Now, if you had eaten the waffles and thought "Boy howdy, that's like eating a donut!" I would sa...

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Some days it's mornings, some it's evenings.

Today, it was after dinner. Tomorrow, it will be in the AM. I'm pretty consistent with my workout. If I skip too often, I just don't feel good.

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Pie wouldn't keep me filled all afternoon. I would end up snacking.

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Sleep is also part of the restorative process that replenishes our self regulation more commonly known as will power according to Tierney and Baumeister.

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Nicest! I missed the good news of the little bundle that will be arriving! Congrats!!

Wishing you and your family a happy and kosher Pesach!

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I just decided to start my weekends on Friday night with dinner. It's not for everyone but it's for me.

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Interesting. Thanks for the lengthy review.

I've started serving fruit as a dessert at dinner. It's cut up and eaten after the main course. I don't try to virtually plate it. I don't really know why I do it other than I felt something was lacking from our meals - a finishing point, I guess.

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Well done on realizing you need a more normal relationship with food. The amount of time and effort you are expending on maintaining your weight is not sustainable over the course of your life. College, new jobs, marriage, babies all require you to reset your eating and work out habits. And there is...

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I went back and edited my post above. Between being really tired and a glass of wine just before I wrote the post, my proof reading suffered.

In the book, Baumeister noted that often times findings from psychological research is greeted with "Oh my grandmother knew that."

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Summary from Conclusion: The Future of Willpower â€“ More Gain, Less Strain (As Long as You Donâ€™t Procrastinate) You only have one source of self-control. Everything that requires will power -from making decisions to biting your tongue to your obnoxious co-worker - draws on this one source. Your a...

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I see now it does make sense when it is on days when I am having to very much control (read willpower) whether I start to feel panic over certain problems coming to a head. My fails in the last couple of months have come on days when I had deadlines and students were not coming through, but I was n...

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Habit really will calm down urges. Once you convince yourself that snacks/sweets/seconds are not OK it does get easier. There are a couple of reasons for this. In the End of Overeating , Dr. David Kessler points to research that shows that cigarette smokers feel a reduced urge to smoke in locations ...

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I believe WW has revamped their program so any materials you have are out of date. I would throw them away. They are no good to anyone. Especially you. I know you have invested a lot of energy, time and money in the materials and have seen very little results. That is when it's hardest to cut your l...

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Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

I'm reading it now on my kindle on loan from the library.

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I would love for some real research to be done on No S particularly in regards to managing blood sugar in non-diabetics.How many people who follow a No S lifestyle develop diabetes ; that sort of thing.

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Love it!

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Since abstinence isn't an option for eating like it is for alcohol, I personally am rethinking the whole idea of a wagon. I can't help but think that it sets up us for the What the Hell effect. Would we would be bettered served by a metaphor that is about progress not perfection?

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Two studies have found that weight loss operations worked much better than the standard treatments to control Type 2 diabetes in obese and overweight people. Those who had surgery to staple the stomach and reroute the small intestine were much more likely to have their diabetes go into complete rem...

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Everyone has times of non-compliance. You haven't left, you just have had a really long string of red days. If I were to rate my compliance this winter on a scale of 1 - 10 with 1 being completely off plan and 10 being the Green Queen, I would give myself about a 5. Maybe a 6. But I am taking the lo...

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I don't stack but occasionally will push the food out to the rim of the 10 inch plate. Otherwise, it's about 9" of round space which is plenty.

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30 lbs! Nice work.

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chocolate, cheese, chips, wine and coffee. I really like all of those.

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I think there is something to be said for eating simply. When you do indulge, a simple regular diet makes the special meal just that much more of an event.

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DON'T PANIC!

We need a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe emoticon. Or maybe towels, embroidered with the No S logo.

I think the numbers in weight are subject to some of the same influences as numbers in the Bistromathic Drive

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I seem to recall that research has shown that most of our extra calorie intake over the last 30 years has come through snacks (I'm talking about the population as a whole.)

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I work in environmental outreach and there's a lot of discussion right now about changing the communications paradigm from "Save the Earth!" types of messages to leveraging behaviors and habits for "green". Many issue oriented groups are slowly coming around to this method. At the end of the day, I ...

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Blogger, Wordpress and Tumblr are all popular blogging sites. Wordpress is even flexible enough to create a more traditional website.

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I came across this book about the power of habit. I haven't read it yet, but I think it looks promising. It's excerpted on NPR.

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/1471926 ... pt#excerpt

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It's too easy to let the winter blahs keep me at my desk all day on my bee-hind. This is just the ticket to get me up and moving more regularly. HEALTH Well: Why Itâ€™s So Important to Keep Moving By By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Published: February 29, 2012 Inactivity produced spikes in blood sugar levels i...

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Sometimes, it takes a while to get everything down pat. I used to struggle with being able to get past Wednesday nights w/o feeling deprived. Now, it's not really a problem.

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Does this plan get rid of stretch marks?

A girl can hope can't she?
You bet there's hope. The "baby" is 18 and I'm still waiting...

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I was failing on Fridays at times and I came up with a plan to have fresh baked biscuits with strawberries and Trader Joe's European style yogurt, but I've never gone to the trouble and most Fridays aren't a problem. I had two homemade buttermilk biscuits last night. Homemade biscuits (the US kind ...

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Does anyone do intermittent fasting (planned or unplanned)? Any fasting is for spiritual reasons rather than health. Who has used this plan to lose and maintain weight loss? I've maintained about a 10lb weight loss since I started seriously following No S last May. This includes exercise. I was at t...

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Interesting. I will probably change my practice based on a realization I had today. This is an excerpt from my today's journal where in I was musing on the Lenten fast: So it's after 3PM on a Thursday and I know what I should fast. My daily gumball. Most days I'm in the office I buy a 25Â¢ gumball f...

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Lent is upon us and I've been contemplating fasting this year. After giving the matter some thought but admittedly not much prayer, I've settled upon fasting sweets on Sundays. Part of me feels like I am cheating - I should just fast sweets. Period. But there is something deep within me that resists...

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Most people who move S days do so for some other reason than wanting a break from the structure. The most common reasons are a standing appointment during the week where S's are involved and work schedules. Maybe this is a good time to start re-scripting your internal dialogue about your attachment ...

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This is indeed good news! Babies! Yay!

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You would probably need to directly implement some tweaks and mods. Depending on how far afield your current eating is from these mods, that may or may not be sustainable. And No S might become another diet focused on weight loss instead of habit builder that results in weight management.

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You made it through the holidays without gaining. Congrats! No S is the only diet that starts off with maintenance. As you internalize the habits, you can start making mods to start weight loss. Plus, there is always adding exercise. Take this is a sign that any weight you do take off with No S will...

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I think getting outside helps me. We've had a milder than normal winter and I haven't been taking advantage of it. Not surprisingly, I'm getting sloppy w/ No S. I also wonder if my new gum chewing habit hasn't been detrimental. Sometimes, I feel like it reinforces the need to be chewing/eating witho...

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Sorry, but I don't agree with saying if you want a sweet, eat a sweet. I didn't read that advice above. And I certainly did not mean to imply it's ok to eat a sweet. What I wanted to say was that a contained fail is better than giving up. If you want a sweet that badly that you feel deprived and ar...

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hullo Milton!

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Great thoughts. Following up with KCCC's thoughts, one of the things I love is that No S requires you to be a grown up. It requires you to be reasonable about expectations, sensible about what to eat, and to say no to yourself. No S is one of the most counter-cultural things you can do. It's my litt...

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If you want a sweet then eat the sweet and call it a fail. Over time, the negative reinforcement will mitigate your cravings. If fail is too strong a word, then call it non-compliant. The world will not end, you will not immediately gain ten pounds, and at the end of the day you are better off eatin...

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I jumped on the scale this morning just because my curiosity was getting the better of me. So after Christmas, a week of traveling w/ emotional eating and little exercise... I weigh exactly the same as I did in mid December. IN short, I maintained. I'm pleased. Just to refresh people's memories, I'm...

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Still No Sing, still not weighing. I took last week off from exercise as I was out of town sending my son to Afghanistan and I was sick. And yes, I engaged in more than a little emotional eating. But I'm getting back on track albeit slowly. Last night I jumped on the elliptical trainer and realized ...

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A full scale overhaul is hard and for most of us unsustainable. I've been trying to integrate the Michael Pollan rule of "eat food/mostly plants/not too much" for about two years now one little tweak at a time. I'm just now up to adding chickpeas to our diet. You can still do paleo/primal but I reco...

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I use a dinner plate with a rim for dinner. The food doesn't go on the rim. I use a bowl for breakfast. Most days, I use a storage container for lunch as I brown bag it.

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A few years ago, What Would Jesus Eat and the Weigh Down diet were making the rounds of Christianity. I hope they helped some people.

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I can tell I'm a moderate in that neither one of those lists resonates with me.

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It does get easier.

My advice? Find a new hobby, something else you can obsess over. Other than food, what sounds interesting to you?

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Do you really need fat off NOW? Or do you need to find a way to get weight off slowly and sustainably?

My experience has been the two are somewhat incompatible.

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I dunno, I just can't back into the daily check ins. So I'm giving myself a break. This is part of Doable Fitness research. What happens if I continue the program w/o the external restraint of daily weighing and checking in?

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I go the YMCA 4-5 times a week and have for 17 years. I do cardio machines, free weights and classes. My DH runs on their track in the winter, my 17 year old son swims daily or hits the weight room. Really, unless you are getting this kind of use out of your gym membership, I wouldn't bother. There ...

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I do about 40 - 60 minutes 5 times a week. Sometimes I do a fitness class, sometimes it's cardio machines and weights. In the summer, I bike and walk instead of the cardio machines but I still like the fitness classes. I do believe that daily movement in walking, housework, etc is really, really imp...

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Well, I'm sorry to see the series end but am inspired by her example. I don't know if I will ever make my own tomato paste. Peeling and seeding cherry tomatoes seems like a lot of work. But it's good to know how to do.

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After a week - yes a week! - of indigestion (I think the pizza I ate a week ago Sunday caused it) my stomach is finally quieting down. It feels good to be hungry again. I am taking the week off from weighing myself. I'm relaxing the No S rules a little bit as well just for this week. No snacking and...

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If it works, it works. I would go with it, especially if you enjoy eating this way. Sweets tend to trigger overeating which ultimately is not enjoyable for me.

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That pleasantly stuffed feeling is nice. Even better when you can achieve on just a salad plate.

Sounds like you had a lovely holiday.

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And not surprisingly I'm back up a pound. I took dinner as a No S event because of DH's birthday. So I had seconds on Chinese and two lindor truffles and a handful of M&Ms. Oh, and some fruit cake. My brother makes the best fruit cake.

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Don't feel bad. I think 21 days is a rule of thumb for very simple behaviors and not across the board applicable to every new habit we want to develop. When you consider how complex eating is as a behavior - influenced by brain chemistry, social cues, and culture - I don't think it's reasonable to e...

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Indeed, Oo. Today I was down a pound and a half. Tonight is Chinese for DH's birthday so another shot of sodium unfortunately.

Pounding the water as my Marines would say.

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Something odd. On Sunday I went out to lunch at our favorite pizza place with the family. I enjoyed! I was also quite hungry so I had something like 4 pieces. Dinner Sunday night was fairly light - soup made with unsalted broth and bread. Monday morning my weight was up by 3 pounds. I kind of expect...

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Not only is it possible to maintain but I've been drifting downwards. I've dropped about 12 lbs since the beginning of May without really too much effort.

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